Abstract

Doctors caring for a 3 month old baby girl who is severely brain damaged are to ask the High Court to let them switch off the ventilator keeping her alive. Sir Stephen Brown, president of the High Court's family division, who is expected to hear the case in May, will be asked to lay down guidelines for doctors taking decisions about withdrawing or withholding treatment from newborn babies with brain damage. In the wake of a series of right to die cases involving adults, doctors …

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